Barack Obama, US president, has decided not to release photographs of the corpse of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader killed by US special forces, amid warnings that such a step could inflame opinion in the Middle East and beyond.
As scattered protests took place in Pakistan against the killing of bin Laden, who was shot unarmed, the White House said Mr Obama had decided not to publish the photos, which it has described as “gruesome”.
Releasing the photos could have served as evidence of bin Laden’s death in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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